Meaningful possessions could include a dog or a favorite compact-disc collection, says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planning for the Unthinkable] Reference

The lamps in the living room had been turned on, and Lucky was surveying her compact-disc library.    From Wordnik.com.  [Texas! Lucky]

The business has been hurt by a steep drop in compact-disc sales as more consumers get their music online.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terra Firma's Guy Hands Resigns Over EMI Deal] Reference

Sony went on to introduce the sleek Trinitron TV, the Walkman and -- with Philips -- the compact-disc player.    From Wordnik.com.  ['We Have Lost A Very Important Player'] Reference

But today, with compact-disc sales falling off a cliff, touring is one of the few ways to reliably convert music into money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can He Save Rock 'n' Roll?] Reference

Last year, compact-disc sales fell nearly 20% to 361 million units, the seventh decline in eight years, according to SoundScan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spinning Out of Control] Reference

"Already the entire body of important musical works is in compact-disc format — unencrypted digital copies" that are freely convertible into MP3 files.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heavenly Jukebox] Reference

To give you an idea of when all this was happening, compact-disc players had just come on the scene and to a classical-music buff like me the earth had moved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Does Your Money Go? Find Out.] Reference

Warner Music Group Corp. posted lower revenue for its fiscal fourth quarter, as consumers continued to shift toward digital music at the expense of compact-disc sales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warner Music's Revenue Falls] Reference

But you begin to see the record companies 'dilemma when celebrated albums from the past are reproduced in compact-disc versions with an approximation of their original covers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why I Hate Compact Discs] Reference

Universal Music Group, the world ' s biggest record company by sales, has tried to compensate for falling compact-disc sales by diversifying into merchandising and advertising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vivendi Looks for Opportunity to Grow by Turning to Its Parts] Reference

In the past few months, more of Crosby's music particularly from the harder-to-hear later portion of his career has been made available than ever before in the compact-disc era.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bing Crosby, Beyond His Greatest Hits] Reference

Tuzla, the city in Bosnia where U.S. troops were stationed during the year, opened eight new movie theaters, 26 new bars, two entire streets ofT-shirt shops and a thriving compact-disc factory.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's 1996--All The World's A Talk Show] Reference

Overall U.S. music sales fell for the seventh time in eight years in 2008 as increases in digitally downloaded albums and songs weren't enough to offset a nearly 20% plunge in compact-disc sales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warner Music Loss Widens on Write-Downs] Reference

More generally, HDTV promises to be the colorful face of a vast integrated telecommunications web encompassing not just television but also computers, telephones, video games, compact-disc players and other electronic media.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Race For Hdtv] Reference

Above, Warner Music artist T.I. Overall U.S. music sales fell for the seventh time in eight years in 2008 as increases in digitally downloaded albums and songs weren't enough to offset a nearly 20% plunge in compact-disc sales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warner Music Posts an Unexpected Profit] Reference

Widens as CD Sales Fall Warner Music Group Corp. posted a wider fiscal second-quarter loss and suspended its quarterly dividend as it continues to struggle with the drop-off in compact-disc sales as consumers shift toward digital music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warner Music Group's Loss] Reference

Then there is the music industry's radical trajectory over roughly the past 25 years, neatly traced by Mr. Goodman: from the fat days of booming compact-disc sales that fed record-company profligacy to the steep plunge touched off by Napster and other online file-sharing services.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trying to Find The Right Beat] Reference

With compact-disc sales collapsing and high-profile artists abandoning traditional record contracts in favor of lucrative arrangements with retailers, concert promoters or consumers themselves, the labels that once dominated the music business could soon face the talent equivalent of a run on the bank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can New EMI Owner Strike a Chord?] Reference

Musical, a compact-disc shop near Fifth Street and Lehigh Avenue in a heavily.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Asian stock markets mixed, European shares gain] Reference

Record labels are seeking to boost online revenue to make up for declining compact-disc sales.    From Wordnik.com.  [DailyHerald.com > News] Reference

Live: 1975 - 85 box set drove lots of rock fans to buy a compact-disc player back in the mid-80s, so I suspect the.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

Bergschneider sold her compact-disc collection to get by, and her mother sold jewelry, including her wedding band.    From Wordnik.com.  [For-Profit College Slump Converging With Student Life-Debtors - Bloomberg] Reference

Record labels are seeking to boost revenue from online video sources as a way to make up for declining compact-disc sales.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Another team from Raleigh had its housing stacked like compact-disc storage towers, and students glued a little bit of greenery onto each floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [NewsObserver.com - Home] Reference

You want a sleek new compact-disc player.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chaos At The Stereo Store] Reference

Pop out your compact-disc map, pop in Aerosmith.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's A Small, Small World] Reference